Check out a new collaborative paper with Jen Lau and Wendy Yang (and many others!) on the ecosystem-level impacts of rhizobium evolution, which just came out in Oecologia.

https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/cheating-may-rare-symbiotic-relationships

We say thanks and good luck to recent UIUC grad Riley Popp, who is moving to Chicago to start a PhD program at Northwestern University! There was plenty of long boarding in his honor.

New collaborative paper on dual-GWAS and population genomics of host-symbiont interactions was just released at Molecular Ecology! Check up on it!

It’s been a busy summer in the greenhouse this year! Clover and Rhizobium and Methylobacterium and Medicago and Sinorhizobium and soybean and Colletotrichum – oh my!